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Press Release: ‘Mystery of the Crystal Skulls’ revealed at Megalithomania
The new Indiana Jones film is inspired by the discovery of a ‘Crystal Skull’ in the pyramids of South America, but did you know that the ‘real’ Mitchell-Hedges skull was said to have been discovered in a pyramid site called Lubaantum in Belize in the 1920’s. Several skulls have come to light since then and a legend of ’13 crystal skulls’ has become a popular story. The new film is based upon 'The Mystery of the Crystal Skulls', the bestselling 1997 book by Chris Morton and Ceri Louise Thomas, who have now agreed to come and present their research at Megalithomania. They will be joined by intrepid researcher Philip Coppens, who had a chance meeting with a friend of the family of the Mitchell-Hedges and was sworn to secrecy until after the death of Anna Mitchell-Hedges as to the origin of this incredible object. But now Coppens will be revealing the truth behind the discovery of one of the most important and mysterious artifacts ever discovered exclusively at the Glastonbury conference next weekend.
The Crystal Skulls are 'officially' forgeries, with some of them said to be manufactured in Germany in the 1800's, but there is one major flaw in that hypothesis. They date them from the time when spinning-wheels must have been used to make such a neat polish on the surface, a date relating to the 1800's onwards. But when we take another look at ancient Egyptian artifacts, we see the same kind of techniques and clues in the pieces themselves that date back over 5000 years . Quartz crystal cannot be dated by carbon testing or any other methods, so archaeologists only presume that they cannot be older than 200 years because that known technology did not officially exist before then. The most famous and beautifully carved is the Mitchell-Hedges skull, with other skulls at the British Museum and in Paris.
Crystal experts from HP laboratories found that the skull had been carved against the natural axis of the crystal. Modern crystal sculptors do not carve "against the grain," otherwise the piece could shatter, even with the use of lasers and sophisticated cutting methods. HP could find no microscopic scratches on the crystal suggesting it was not carved with steel instruments. The experts suggested that it was "roughly hewn out with diamonds, and then the detail work was meticulously done with a gentle solution of silicon sand and water". But this would have taken over 300 years to complete! They concluded that successfully crafting a shape as complex as the Mitchell-Hedges skull is "impossible", or as one HP researcher is said to have remarked, "The damned thing simply shouldn't be."
Granite is 55% quartz, therefore extremely hard, but in ancient Egypt vessels were cut, shaped and polished by minute super-fast blades and sanders, using perhaps diamond cutters and spinning wheels. Similar to the clues from the Mitchell-Hedges skull. Christopher Dunn (who will be speaking at Megalithomania next year), an engineer for 30 years concluded that they must have had advance machining techniques in antiquity, and the current theory that they used copper tools is absurd when dealing with rock as hard as granite. But it is not only Egypt that precision crystal cutting was in operation. Professor Robert Temple, who spoke at last years Megalithomania had discovered that magnifying lenses, telescopes, and optical surveying techniques existed from the time of Old Kingdom Egypt, with magnifying crystals known even in Predynastic times, circa 3300 BC. Over 400 ancient optical artifacts that were precision-ground or cast have been discovered all over the world by Professor Temple and some of them looked to have been worked by modern machining.
The mystery of the crystal skulls simply cannot be tucked away as German fakes. Modern science, nor Egyptologists accept the 'rock solid' facts that precision stone and crystal work were present in the megalithic era, so Megalithomania intends to put these cutting-edge ideas out in an open forum to be discussed and put under scrutiny from a line-up of international authors and scholars who specialize in finding out what the ancients were up to.
The keynote speaker for the event is a real-life Indiana Jones, David Hatcher Childress, who is well known for his exploratory research into ancient civilisations. He will be discussing his megalithic travels in South America and the Pacific. Other speakers include Nicholas Mann, Hamish Miller, Tom Graves & Peter Marshall. There are 13 talks, with a “megalith-forum” hosted by our special guest and the inspiration for the conference, John Michell.
The conference takes place at the Assembly Rooms in Glastonbury on 17th & 18th May 2008. Field trips to Stanton Drew, Stoney Littleton, Stonehenge and Avebury will take place on the Friday and Monday. Tickets are £80 or £45 day tickets. A small number of tickets to individual talks will be available on the door. Field trips are not included in the price. Call 01458 831800 for tickets or visit
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